Chapter XXV. BRANCHING OUT

   Local history in both Hamilton and Middletown is sketched in Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Chicago: Robert O. Law Company, 3 vols. 1919, and in William E. Smith History of Southwestern Ohio, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 3 vols. 1964. The full text of McBride's argument that even before its material construction Miami University was permanently fixed in the as yet unbuilt town of Oxford appears in John Ewing Bradford, ed., The James McBride Manuscripts Relating to Miami University, Cincinnati, 1909. The Miami University Office of Information has issued annual booklets on each of the branch campuses and their relation to the respective communities. Details of the planning and development of the European Center in Luxembourg appear in Walter Havighurst The Dolibois Years 1938-1981, published by the Miami University Alumni Association in 1982. Middfest magazine, published 1981 by the citizens of Middletown, gives a detailed illustrated account of the annual Middletown International Celebration and of the relationship of Middletown, Ohio, to Luxembourgville in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. A very readable account of civic and industrial development is given in George Crout, Middletown U S A, All-American City, Middletown, Ohio 1960. Its author is a Miami graduate of 1938.